CIO Summit France
The Rise of Agentic Systems
AI Industrialization: CIOs Take Action!
The IDC CIO Summit 2026 is the strategic gathering for CIOs and technology leaders committed to building the networked enterprise of tomorrow. As we approach 2027, the challenge is no longer technology experimentation, but operational performance at scale.
đź“… Wednesday, November 25, 2026
📍 CarrĂ© Edouard VII – Paris, France
👥 Over 80 CIOs and IT Directors expected
🔒 Free access, reserved for CIOs, IT Directors and technology decision-makers — validated at registration
Context
Designed with an Advisory Board of CIOs and IT Directors from major groups (Danone, Vallourec, Edenred, Bonduelle, Aéroports de Paris, Constellium, Herta, Albea Group…), the IDC CIO Summit 2026 answers the questions every CIO is asking today: how to orchestrate seamless and secure collaboration between human intelligence, algorithms and autonomous agents? How to know who in the company is really using AI, and with which indicators to measure whether its adoption creates value rather than risk? And with the multiplication of cyberattacks, what trade-offs must the CIO make between fast innovation and control of their information system?
An event designed by and for IT decision-makers, to exchange among peers.
IDC 2028 Insights
By 2028, 70% of G1000 CIO roles will be held by transformational leaders who can implement new AI-fueled business models with enterprisewide consistency while modernizing IT to meet AI business needs.
Andrea Siviero
Andrea Siviero leads IDC’s European Digital Business and Future of Work Research group. The group provides market research insights to foster a purposeful and fair adoption of technologies supporting digital societies, businesses and workforce and empower tech providers in strategic decision making, planning and go-to-market activities. Siviero also co-leads the IDC Worldwide MacroTech Research program, focused on the intertwined connection between the Economical and Digital worlds – analyzing the impact key MacroEconomic factors have on the digital landscape and viceversa, how technologies are impacting economies around the world.
Siviero advises IT players on building a forward-looking digital business and workforce strategy, while providing an in-depth view on future of work technology adoption, key digital use cases, macroeconomic digital impact, and digital regulations and emerging technology, via qualitative subscriptions and custom consulting projects. He has extensive experience with large strategy and go-to-market projects with IT providers. He is a member of IDC’s global Tech Storytellers taskforce and he is passionate about public speaking and customer engagement opportunities.
He joined IDC’s European team in 2014 and has become a recognized independent analyst across Europe and beyond in the vertical markets and digital business space. He is based in Italy and he holds a joint PhD in mathematics between the UniversitĂ© Bordeaux I (France) and the Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands). During his PhD, he covered scientific research, academic teaching, and vocational training. He is a native Italian speaker and he is fluent in English and French.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:00 am
Industrializing Agentic AI: the 5 strategic decisions CIOs must make now to move from experimentation to managing an autonomous enterprise
After the wave of generative AI and copilots, companies are entering a new phase: that of agents capable of executing business processes and collaborating with human teams. Drawing on market data and international analyses, Andrea Siviero (IDC) will decode the key trends and the five strategic decisions CIOs must make today to move from experimentation to the industrialization of AI, and to successfully enable collaboration between intelligent agents and business teams within the autonomous enterprise.
Philippe Muller
Event Sessions
One Day Event 2:00 pm
Guest Interview – Orano Facing Technological Challenges: Digital Sovereignty Strategy and AI Transformation
AI is profoundly transforming how companies approach their digital strategy, balancing technological ambition with sovereignty requirements. How can organizations scale up without losing control over their most sensitive data? Philippe Muller, Digital and Solutions Director at Orano, shares his vision and firsthand experience
Antoine Thorin
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:35 am
Panel #1 – From Generative AI to Autonomous Agents : How CIOs Are Rethinking Team Structure and Their Own Role
Agentic AI is transforming the very nature of work: agents capable of acting within the information system, automating business processes, and collaborating with human teams.
How should an AI Center of Excellence be structured? How can IT and business teams be aligned? Which KPIs should be used to measure the performance of these new hybrid “human + agent” systems? CIOs share their best practices and real-world feedback.
Hubert Cariou
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:35 am
Panel #1 – From Generative AI to Autonomous Agents : How CIOs Are Rethinking Team Structure and Their Own Role
Agentic AI is transforming the very nature of work: agents capable of acting within the information system, automating business processes, and collaborating with human teams.
How should an AI Center of Excellence be structured? How can IT and business teams be aligned? Which KPIs should be used to measure the performance of these new hybrid “human + agent” systems? CIOs share their best practices and real-world feedback.
Vincent Rémon
Event Sessions
One Day Event 11:50 am
Panel #2 – Sovereignty and Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: which trade-offs do CIOs really need to make and which can be avoided?
As AI adoption accelerates, CIOs must strike the right balance between rapid innovation and risk control. This panel explores the key structural decisions around sovereignty, cybersecurity, and data governance, with concrete feedback and real-world insights on how to secure AI use cases without slowing down large-scale adoption.
Omar Elshamy
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:35 am
Panel #1 – From Generative AI to Autonomous Agents : How CIOs Are Rethinking Team Structure and Their Own Role
Agentic AI is transforming the very nature of work: agents capable of acting within the information system, automating business processes, and collaborating with human teams.
How should an AI Center of Excellence be structured? How can IT and business teams be aligned? Which KPIs should be used to measure the performance of these new hybrid “human + agent” systems? CIOs share their best practices and real-world feedback.
Yosra Barbier
Event Sessions
One Day Event 11:50 am
Panel #2 – Sovereignty and Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: which trade-offs do CIOs really need to make and which can be avoided?
As AI adoption accelerates, CIOs must strike the right balance between rapid innovation and risk control. This panel explores the key structural decisions around sovereignty, cybersecurity, and data governance, with concrete feedback and real-world insights on how to secure AI use cases without slowing down large-scale adoption.
Faten Ben Slimane
Event Sessions
One Day Event 2:40 pm
Panel #3 – Responsible Digital and Green AI: how to steer an ESG trajectory in an AI-powered IT environment
Beyond operational efficiency, how can digital technology become an ally in your environmental transition? Discover how our experts and CIOs are reconciling the surge in AI demands with their ESG commitments—turning technological sobriety into a true driver of innovation and sustainable performance.
Sébastien Mandron
- SĂ©bastien Mandron a rejoint Worldline en 2011 pour accĂ©lĂ©rer la transformation opĂ©rationnelle de l’entreprise. Il a dĂ©butĂ© sa carrière chez PwC Consulting avant de rejoindre le groupe Atos en 2003, oĂą il Ă©tait responsable de trois grands programmes de transformation visant Ă amĂ©liorer la performance opĂ©rationnelle, la performance commerciale et le bien-ĂŞtre des employĂ©s.
- En 2014, SĂ©bastien a Ă©tĂ© nommĂ© responsable RSE pour structurer, organiser et dĂ©velopper la stratĂ©gie RSE de l’entreprise. SĂ©bastien anime le comitĂ© RSE du conseil d’administration de Worldline.
- Sébastien est responsable RSE pour transformer notre façon de travailler, en lançant constamment de nouvelles initiatives RSE et en améliorant les performances de durabilité évaluées par les plus grandes agences internationales de notation extra-financière. Il a lancé les programmes de transformation RSE appelés Trust 2020 et Trust 2025. Au cours des deux dernières années, de nouvelles initiatives ont été lancées autour des sujets Green IT et du coût environnemental de la transaction de paiement numérique.
- SĂ©bastien a Ă©tĂ© nommĂ© au conseil d’administration du Club des directeurs du dĂ©veloppement durable, regroupant tous les responsables RSE français. Dans ce cadre, il anime un groupe de travail sur les sujets CSRD et un autre sur les tendances de la DurabilitĂ©. En 2020, il a rejoint le conseil d’administration du Pacte Mondial France des Nations Unies.
- SĂ©bastien est titulaire d’une licence en Ă©conomie (UniversitĂ© Paris Assas) et d’un master en IngĂ©nierie Financière (UniversitĂ© Sorbonne).
Event Sessions
One Day Event 2:40 pm
Panel #3 – Responsible Digital and Green AI: how to steer an ESG trajectory in an AI-powered IT environment
Beyond operational efficiency, how can digital technology become an ally in your environmental transition? Discover how our experts and CIOs are reconciling the surge in AI demands with their ESG commitments—turning technological sobriety into a true driver of innovation and sustainable performance.
Arnaud Tonazzi
Event Sessions
One Day Event 10:05 am
Applications and workstations in the age of AI: how to keep control over security, costs and technology choices?
AI, hybrid work and budget pressure are reshuffling the deck: delivering applications and workstations is no longer an infrastructure topic, it is a lever of control for the CIO. How can you secure every access, on any type of device, without burdening your IT systems or locking yourself in with a single vendor? How can you keep the choice between cloud, on-premises and sovereign hosting, while containing costs? Arnaud Tonazzi, VDI and EUC expert, shares candid field experience and concrete criteria to decide. With Parallels.
Sam Masri
Sam is Chief Revenue Officer for SAP’s Business Transformation Management (BTM) portfolio, accountable for unleashing customer success through AI-powered Integrated Toolchain, SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio solutions, including adoption, consumption, and measurable value realization. Sam is overseeing the Global GTM strategy planning and execution, as well as long-term business growth, collaborating closely with SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio Product leadership, customers, partners, to align Business Transformation Management GTM approach with innovation, roadmap and market priorities.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 10:20 am
Technical Debt and Agentic AI: The Invisible Prerequisite Before Scaling
Your AI agents are only as reliable as the data and processes they run on. Fragmented architecture, years of stacked customizations, inconsistent process definitions across subsidiaries: this is often where agentic AI projects fail to move from experimentation to production — more so than the choice of model. This session proposes a simple principle to guide the decision: keep a clean, standardized application core, and customize only at the edges, so that every new agent inherits a reliable foundation rather than a pile of workarounds. With SAP.
Arnaud Baffie
Arnaud Baffie évolue depuis plus de 25 ans dans l’industrie IT, avec un parcours construit à la croisée de la technologie, des services et du financement des actifs numériques.
 Aujourd’hui Account Executive France chez devicenow, il accompagne les grandes entreprises dans la transformation de leur environnement Workplace IT et l’évolution de leurs modèles traditionnels d’acquisition vers le Device as a Service (DaaS).
Au cours de sa carrière, Arnaud a développé une expertise particulière dans la gestion et le financement du cycle de vie des équipements IT, les modèles « as a Service » et l’accompagnement de grands comptes dans leurs projets de transformation.
Il s’intéresse notamment aux nouveaux enjeux auxquels sont confrontés les CIO : simplification des opérations IT, maîtrise des coûts, expérience collaborateur, flexibilité, déploiement international et intégration des principes d’économie circulaire dans la gestion du parc informatique.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 11:30 am
From uncontrolled costs to controlled spending: the keys to managing the digital workplace as a service
In a context of increasing budget pressure, CIOs must shift from a model of reactive, unmanaged costs to a more precise and predictable approach to managing the IT workplace. This session with Devicenow shares practical levers and best practices to transform the digital workplace into a service, increase agility, and align IT challenges with financial and business priorities.
Bruno Moshirifar
Event Sessions
One Day Event 11:40 am
AI project ROI: customer-facing teams as the epicenter of value creation
Voice interactions represent a largely untapped data source for many organizations. This session with RingOver outlines a practical five-step approach to transform voice data into AI-ready assets, enhance business processes, and unlock new performance drivers.
Xavier Mahave
Xavier MahavĂ© accompagne depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans les organisations dans leurs projets de transformation numĂ©rique, d’optimisation des systèmes d’information et de modernisation des infrastructures IT. Aujourd’hui Directeur ExĂ©cutif EMEA chez Tricise, partenaire stratĂ©gique Broadcom en Europe, il aide les grandes entreprises et les organisations publiques Ă aligner innovation technologique, performance opĂ©rationnelle et crĂ©ation de valeur mĂ©tier.
Au cours de sa carrière, Xavier a occupĂ© des fonctions de direction gĂ©nĂ©rale, de management commercial et de pilotage de projets technologiques au sein d’entreprises telles que Orange Business Services, Axians, Cegetel et Nortel Matra Cellular. Cette double expĂ©rience de dirigeant et d’acteur de terrain lui apporte une vision pragmatique des enjeux auxquels sont confrontĂ©s les DSI : maĂ®trise des coĂ»ts, modernisation des infrastructures, accĂ©lĂ©ration de la transformation digitale et amĂ©lioration de la performance des organisations.
Depuis plus de huit ans chez Tricise, il accompagne les entreprises europĂ©ennes dans l’adoption des pratiques Agile, DevOps et Platform Engineering. Son expertise couvre notamment les infrastructures de cloud privĂ©, l’automatisation des processus d’entreprise, l’observabilitĂ© des environnements hybrides et la gouvernance des investissements technologiques. Il intervient rĂ©gulièrement auprès des directions gĂ©nĂ©rales et des DSI sur les sujets liĂ©s Ă VMware Cloud Foundation, Ă l’intelligence artificielle, Ă l’automatisation Ă grande Ă©chelle et au pilotage de la valeur créée par l’IT.
DiplĂ´mĂ© d’un MBA en Marketing et Finance de l’EM Lyon Business School, Xavier combine vision stratĂ©gique, culture financière et expertise technologique. Convaincu que la rĂ©ussite des initiatives d’intelligence artificielle repose autant sur la gouvernance, la qualitĂ© des donnĂ©es et l’exĂ©cution que sur les modèles eux-mĂŞmes, il accompagne les organisations dans leur transition vers des environnements numĂ©riques plus performants, plus automatisĂ©s et plus souverains.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 2:30 pm
Automation and Agentic AI: Securing the Foundations Before Scaling Up
Behind every AI agent are processes to orchestrate and an automation foundation that must be made reliable. How can you modernize your workflows without disrupting operations? What are the right choices between cloud, SaaS, and sovereign hosting, while keeping costs under control? Xavier Mahave, Executive Director EMEA at Tricise, a recognized European expert in automation, shares his hands-on experience with CIOs.
Agenda
The Summit content is selected and challenged by our Advisory Board, made up of IT decision-makers from Danone, Vallourec, Edenred, Bonduelle, Aéroports de Paris, Constellium, Herta and Albea Group, among others.
CIO Summit France
Wed, Nov 25
Welcome Breakfast
Industrializing Agentic AI: the 5 strategic decisions CIOs must make now to move from experimentation to managing an autonomous enterprise
After the wave of generative AI and copilots, companies are entering a new phase: that of agents capable of executing business processes and collaborating with human teams. Drawing on market data and international analyses, Andrea Siviero (IDC) will decode the key trends and the five strategic decisions CIOs must make today to move from experimentation to the industrialization of AI, and to successfully enable collaboration between intelligent agents and business teams within the autonomous enterprise.
Andrea Siviero
Vice President, AI-fueled Business Strategies, IDC
Orchestrating the Autonomous Enterprise: how can AI agents, data, and business systems be connected?
Behind the promise of the autonomous enterprise lies a major challenge: effectively connecting AI agents, data, and business systems. This session explores the challenges of IT orchestration and the architectural choices required to move from isolated use cases to seamless, scalable execution of business processes.
Panel #1 – From Generative AI to Autonomous Agents : How CIOs Are Rethinking Team Structure and Their Own Role
Agentic AI is transforming the very nature of work: agents capable of acting within the information system, automating business processes, and collaborating with human teams.
How should an AI Center of Excellence be structured? How can IT and business teams be aligned? Which KPIs should be used to measure the performance of these new hybrid “human + agent” systems? CIOs share their best practices and real-world feedback.
Antoine Thorin
Chief AI Solutions, GEODIS, auteur du livre "Next Move: IA, Stratégie et Leadership: Transformer l'entreprise à l'ère de l'IA"
Hubert Cariou
CIO, ALBEA GROUP
Omar Elshamy
Delphy CTO, VALLOUREC
Applications and workstations in the age of AI: how to keep control over security, costs and technology choices?
AI, hybrid work and budget pressure are reshuffling the deck: delivering applications and workstations is no longer an infrastructure topic, it is a lever of control for the CIO. How can you secure every access, on any type of device, without burdening your IT systems or locking yourself in with a single vendor? How can you keep the choice between cloud, on-premises and sovereign hosting, while containing costs? Arnaud Tonazzi, VDI and EUC expert, shares candid field experience and concrete criteria to decide. With Parallels.
Arnaud Tonazzi
Senior Sales Engineer, PARALLELS
Technical Debt and Agentic AI: The Invisible Prerequisite Before Scaling
Your AI agents are only as reliable as the data and processes they run on. Fragmented architecture, years of stacked customizations, inconsistent process definitions across subsidiaries: this is often where agentic AI projects fail to move from experimentation to production — more so than the choice of model. This session proposes a simple principle to guide the decision: keep a clean, standardized application core, and customize only at the edges, so that every new agent inherits a reliable foundation rather than a pile of workarounds. With SAP.
Sam Masri
Global Chief Revenue Officer, Business Transformation Management, SAP
Workshop #1 – How can you govern AI without slowing innovation? Security, sovereignty, and compliance: the concrete trade-offs to make now
How can you govern AI without slowing innovation?
AI Act, Shadow IT, data sovereignty: CIOs are navigating between regulatory pressure and business units deploying at full speed. This workshop breaks down false dilemmas, provides an actionable three-level AI governance framework, and shows how to turn compliance into a competitive advantage rather than a constraint.
Workshop #2 – Is your IT system ready for agentic AI? The diagnostic workshop to assess your level of visibility before scaling
Architecture, data, governance: three blind spots that make AI deployments in enterprises fail — often because no one sees what is really happening once the agents are in production. This hands-on workshop guides you through assessing your own level of operational visibility over your AI systems, with a diagnostic grid to take away, the priorities to address first, and field feedback from CIOs in the same situation. Run with Datadog.
Coffee break & networking
From uncontrolled costs to controlled spending: the keys to managing the digital workplace as a service
In a context of increasing budget pressure, CIOs must shift from a model of reactive, unmanaged costs to a more precise and predictable approach to managing the IT workplace. This session with Devicenow shares practical levers and best practices to transform the digital workplace into a service, increase agility, and align IT challenges with financial and business priorities.
Arnaud Baffie
Account Executive – Sales International, Devicenow
AI project ROI: customer-facing teams as the epicenter of value creation
Voice interactions represent a largely untapped data source for many organizations. This session with RingOver outlines a practical five-step approach to transform voice data into AI-ready assets, enhance business processes, and unlock new performance drivers.
Bruno Moshirifar
VP Solution Engineering & Sales Services, Ringover
Panel #2 – Sovereignty and Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: which trade-offs do CIOs really need to make and which can be avoided?
As AI adoption accelerates, CIOs must strike the right balance between rapid innovation and risk control. This panel explores the key structural decisions around sovereignty, cybersecurity, and data governance, with concrete feedback and real-world insights on how to secure AI use cases without slowing down large-scale adoption.
Vincent Rémon
RSSI, MINISTERE DE LA CULTURE
Yosra Barbier
Membre, CERCLE DES FEMMES DE LA CYBERSECURITE
Shadow IT and the SaaS explosion: regaining control of access without slowing productivity
How can you secure identities and access in the face of the multiplication of SaaS tools and Shadow IT, without slowing down the business or AI adoption? Concrete approaches presented with 1Password.
Indira Salcede
Commercial Solutions Engineer, EMEA, 1PASSWORD
IT as a growth driver: how to demonstrate the business ROI of IT to your executive committee
How can you turn your cost center into a revenue driver? Our partner Insight shares the keys to measuring the real impact of your digital investments and aligning your technology strategy with your executive committee’s growth objectives.
Networking Lunch
Guest Interview – Orano Facing Technological Challenges: Digital Sovereignty Strategy and AI Transformation
AI is profoundly transforming how companies approach their digital strategy, balancing technological ambition with sovereignty requirements. How can organizations scale up without losing control over their most sensitive data? Philippe Muller, Digital and Solutions Director at Orano, shares his vision and firsthand experience
Philippe Muller
Directeur Digital et Solutions, ORANO
Sovereign innovation: 4 practical approaches to combining AI power and technological independence
How can you innovate without compromising your strategic autonomy? Through four concrete use cases, discover cutting-edge solutions that reconcile the power demands of AI with European sovereignty requirements. A quick deep dive into architectures that ensure your technological independence today.
Automation and Agentic AI: Securing the Foundations Before Scaling Up
Behind every AI agent are processes to orchestrate and an automation foundation that must be made reliable. How can you modernize your workflows without disrupting operations? What are the right choices between cloud, SaaS, and sovereign hosting, while keeping costs under control? Xavier Mahave, Executive Director EMEA at Tricise, a recognized European expert in automation, shares his hands-on experience with CIOs.
Xavier Mahave
Directeur Exécutif EMEA, TRICISE
Panel #3 – Responsible Digital and Green AI: how to steer an ESG trajectory in an AI-powered IT environment
Beyond operational efficiency, how can digital technology become an ally in your environmental transition? Discover how our experts and CIOs are reconciling the surge in AI demands with their ESG commitments—turning technological sobriety into a true driver of innovation and sustainable performance.
Faten Ben Slimane
Directrice de programmes Data, ESG & IA, LA BANQUE POSTALE
Sébastien Mandron
Directeur Durabilité et Administrateur du C3D, WORLDLINE
Cocktail & networking
Eric Vautier
Marion Buchet
Khaoula Ben Ayed
Hubert Cariou
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:35 am
Panel #1 – From Generative AI to Autonomous Agents : How CIOs Are Rethinking Team Structure and Their Own Role
Agentic AI is transforming the very nature of work: agents capable of acting within the information system, automating business processes, and collaborating with human teams.
How should an AI Center of Excellence be structured? How can IT and business teams be aligned? Which KPIs should be used to measure the performance of these new hybrid “human + agent” systems? CIOs share their best practices and real-world feedback.
Mathieu Skotarek
Daniel Roux
Thibaut Roynette
Tewfik Noumri
Omar Elshamy
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:35 am
Panel #1 – From Generative AI to Autonomous Agents : How CIOs Are Rethinking Team Structure and Their Own Role
Agentic AI is transforming the very nature of work: agents capable of acting within the information system, automating business processes, and collaborating with human teams.
How should an AI Center of Excellence be structured? How can IT and business teams be aligned? Which KPIs should be used to measure the performance of these new hybrid “human + agent” systems? CIOs share their best practices and real-world feedback.
Key topics
Agentic & Autonomous AI
From copilots to agents able to decide and execute business workflows autonomously.
Sovereignty, Cybersecurity & Compliance
AI Act, Shadow IT, data sovereignty: the concrete trade-offs between fast innovation and risk control.
AI Visibility & Operational Performance
Observability, architecture and IT maturity: how to steer the real performance of your AI systems in production.
Responsible Digital & Green AI
Reducing the carbon footprint of AI and using it as a lever for sustainability.
The Talent Gap & New Ways of Working
Managing hybrid teams (Humans + AI Agents) and the evolving role of the CIO
ROI, Resilience & Business Impact of Digital
Demonstrating the value of IT to the Executive Committee, controlling IT costs and steering resilience in times of crisis.
IDC 2031 Insights
By 2031, G1000 CIOs will spend up to 25% of IT budgets on quantum-resilient systems to guard against quantum attacks and secure business continuity.
Venue
Carré Edouard VII – Paris
13 bis Rue Bruno Coquatrix, 75009 Paris
This year, we invite you to join us at Carré Édouard VII, in the heart of Paris’s Opéra district.
A central and elegant venue, easily accessible by public transportation, and the perfect place to meet and connect.
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